The Writer's World: Sentences and Paragraphs Book

Inside Front Cover

Sentence Checklist

Revising and Editing Symbols

Preface

PART I. THE WRITING PROCESS

Chapter 1: Exploring

Chapter 2: Developing

Chapter 3: Revising & Editing

Chapter 4: Paragraph Patterns

Chapter 5: Writing the Essay

PART II: EDITING HANDBOOK

Grammar Section 1: Some Parts of Speech

Chapter 6: Nouns, Determiners and Prepositions

Chapter 7: Pronouns

Grammar Section 2: Problems with Verbs

Chapter 8: Subjects and Verbs

Chapter 9: Present and past Tenses

Chapter 10: Past Participles

Chapter 11: Progressive Tenses

Chapter 12: Other Verb Forms

Grammar Section 3: Verb Agreement and Consistency

Chapter 13: Subject-Verb Agreement

Chapter 14: Tense Consistency

Grammar Section 4: Effective Sentences

Chapter 15: Sentence Combining (Part I)

Chapter 16: Sentence Combining (Part II)

Chapter 17: Sentence Variety and Exact Language

Grammar Section 5: Common Sentence Errors

Chapter 18: Fragments

Chapter 19: Run-Ons

Chapter 20: Faulty Parallel Structure

Grammar Section 6: Modifiers

Chapter 21: Adjectives & Adverbs

Chapter 22: Mistakes with Modifiers

Grammar Section 7: Word Use and Spelling

Chapter 23: Spelling

Chapter 24: Commonly Confused Words

Grammar Section 8: Punctuation and Mechanics

Chapter 25: Comma Usage

Chapter 26: The Apostrophe

Chapter 27: Quotation Marks and Capitalization

Grammar Section 9: Editing

Chapter 28: Editing Practice

PART III: READING STRATEGIES AND SELECTIONS

Chapter 29: Reading Strategies and Reading Selections

Reading Strategies

Reading Selections

Reading 1: "Fish Cheeks," by Amy Tan

Reading 2: "The Hijab," by Naheed Mustafa

Reading 3: "A Conversation with John E. Smelcer," by Dale E. Seeds

Reading 4: "The Point Is?" by John G. Tufts

Reading 5: "Sports and Life: Lessons to Be Learned," by Jeff Kemp

Reading 6: "Birth," by Maya Angelou

Reading 7: "For Marriage," by Kirsteen Macleod

Reading 8: "Against Marriage," by Winston Murray

Reading 9: "The Appalling Truth," by Dorothy Nixon

Reading 10: "The New Addiction," by Josh Freed

Reading 11: "The Culture War," by Linda Chavez

Reading 12: "Going Thin in Fiji," by Ellen Goodman

Reading 13: "What It Feels Like to Walk on the Moon," by Buzz Aldrin

Reading 14: "The Zoo Life," by Yann Martel

Reading 15: "Political Activism," by Craig Stern

Reading 16: "How to Handle Conflict," by P. Gregory Smith

Reading 17: "The Rewards of Dirty Work," by Linda L. Lindsey and Stephen Beach

Appendices

Appendix 1: Grammar Glossary

Appendix 2: Verb Tenses

Appendix 3: Combining Ideas in Sentences

Appendix 4: Punctuation and Mechanics

Appendix 5: Spelling, Grammar, and Vocabulary Logs

Credits

Index

Inside Back Cover

Paragraph and Essay Checklists